DynaLock 8000SF Series Standard Slope Front Consoles

The 8000SF Series slope front console is a desktop control and monitoring unit for doors held by electromagnetic locks, electric strikes, or similar electronic locking devices. Each zone on the console gives you a toggle switch to release or secure that door plus a red and a green LED for lock and/or door status. The LEDs light from a dry contact closure fed back from the door, so a door position contact or alarm sensor tells the guard whether the opening is actually closed, not just whether the switch was thrown.

Up to 12. The console is built to order with 1 through 12 stations, one zone per door, and you pick the station count when you order. Size it to the openings you are monitoring now plus any you expect to add, because the zone count is fixed in the unit at build time, not field expandable.

Momentary and alternate action are both offered and the choice decides how the door behaves. Momentary releases the lock only while the switch is held, then the door re-secures on its own, which is what you want for a receptionist buzzing a visitor through. Alternate action latches the switch in position, so throwing it unlocks the door and leaves it unlocked until the switch is thrown back. That is the one for holding a lobby or corridor door open through business hours. Pick this per order, since it applies to the console's station switches.

A console and a push button solve different problems. If you need one door released at one place, a wall or frame mounted push button does it, and options run from the Securitron PB3 Series push buttons through the RCI 950 Series round push plate with handicap symbol for a barrier free opening. Choose the 8000SF console when a person at a desk needs to work several doors from one place and see whether each one is secure, because the console carries both the switch and the red and green status LEDs per zone. A push button gives you release only, with no status back.

Each zone's LEDs need a dry contact closure sent back from the opening. That signal comes from a switch in the locking device itself, or from something else on the door such as a door position contact or an alarm sensor. If your mag locks have no bond sensor or the frames have no door contacts, the toggles will still release the doors but the indicators will not report anything. Budget the contacts and the return wiring per zone when you plan the job.

No. The 8000SF console is a remote unit for an attended desk and is not an at-the-door egress release. For a marked release at the opening, look at the Securitron EEB emergency exit push button with interchangeable LED lenses, the ACSI 1320-1-MOM-ER pushbutton switch marked Emergency Release, or the RCI 908 Series electronic exit button with red EXIT text. Those serve a person standing at the door; the console serves the person watching several doors from one station.

The DynaLock 8000SF Standard Slope Front Console is a multi-zone control and monitoring unit, ordered from one up to twelve stations, with each station carrying a red and a green LED indicator plus a toggle switch, and it runs on 12 or 24 VDC. If the job is just a single release point at the opening rather than a remote panel, the Securitron PB3 Series Push Button or the Trine 342 Narrow Style Electric Door Switch covers that with one device at the door. The Trine 342 is a narrow style switch, which suits a mullion or a tight frame face where a console has nowhere to sit.

They light up, but they are not the same device. The Securitron PB5 Series is a medium round illuminated push button and the PB4L Series is a stainless push button with an illuminated halo - the illumination is part of the button itself at the opening. The DynaLock 8000SF is a remote console whose red and green LEDs report lock and door status back from a dry contact closure supplied by a signal switch in the locking device or elsewhere on the door, such as a door position contact or alarm sensor. If the requirement is to see the state of doors from a desk, the console is the device that does it; if the requirement is a visible button at the door, the PB5 or PB4L covers that.

The DynaLock 8000SF console station toggle switches are ordered as either momentary or alternate action, and alternate action is what holds a state until switched back. For the same held-state behavior at the door rather than at a panel, the RCI 908 Series electronic exit button with red EXIT text is offered with maintained operation, and the RCI 919 Series rotary release button is offered with maintained operation in a satin aluminum finish. The RCI 909 Series flush mount rocker is a momentary switch rated 250VAC 10A, so it releases only while actuated.

An emergency release is a marked, single-purpose device at the opening: the ACSI 1320-1-MOM-ER pushbutton switch is marked Emergency Release, and the Securitron EEB emergency exit push button uses interchangeable LED lenses. The DynaLock 8000SF is a control and monitoring console for doors held by electromagnetic locks, electric strikes or similar electronic locking devices, with up to twelve zones of toggle switch and status LEDs, so it serves the staffed control point rather than the marked release at the door. Facilities commonly carry both - the ER device on the opening and the console where the doors are watched.

The label kit is a separate ordering choice, included or not included, so it does not come in the box by default. On a multi-zone console it is worth adding: a guard looking at eight identical toggles needs to know which one is the loading dock and which is the stairwell. If you are ordering a console with more than a couple of stations, specify the label kit included.

Yes. The 8000SF console works with electromagnetic locks, electric strikes, and other similar electronic locking devices, so a mixed opening list is fine on one console. Each zone is just a switch and a pair of status LEDs, so what matters is that every door on the console runs on the same DC voltage you ordered the console in, 12 VDC or 24 VDC.

Depends on who is allowed to operate it. The 8000SF console has open toggle switches, so anyone at the desk can throw them, which is right for a staffed reception or guard post. Where the release has to be restricted to keyholders and sits at the door, a mortise keyswitch such as the ACSI 1310-1 from the 1300 Series is the better tool. Some jobs use both: keyswitches at the perimeter openings and a console at the desk for oversight.

No. The RCI 950HP is a round push plate carrying the handicap symbol with a momentary switch in satin stainless steel, which is the form buyers specify for an accessible actuator at the opening. The DynaLock 8000SF is a slope front console for remote control and status monitoring of doors on electromagnetic locks and electric strikes, ordered with one to twelve stations, so it sits at a desk or counter rather than on the wall beside the door.

The 8000SF slope front console is a commercial product, intended for staffed control points in commercial and institutional buildings where a desk operator works multiple electronically locked openings. For a single door in a house or a small office, a single push button such as the Securitron PB3 Series is the sensible route rather than a multi-zone console.

The DynaLock 8000SF Standard Slope Front Console is ordered as 12 VDC or 24 VDC, so it drops straight onto a 24VDC access control supply along with the door hardware it monitors. Among the door-mounted devices, the RCI 909 Series flush mount momentary rocker is rated 250VAC 10A at its contacts, meaning its rating is a switching capacity rather than a coil voltage, so it will pass a 24VDC access control circuit. Confirm the current draw of the LEDs and any device you place on the same supply before sizing the power supply.